The Oldies - Coral's Analysis

The Oldies
 The Oldies are simply one of the nicest families around.  Their years together through good and bad have made them into the wonderful parents, and grandparents, they are today.
 
Coral Oldie

name:  Coral
favourite colour:  Royal Blue

favourite food: Indian Curry

favourite weather/time of day: Dawn

favourite drink: Mango Lassi

currently reading: The World we found by Thrita Umigar

career: Stay at Home Mum.

if she had one wish: That her daughter would be happy and successful

greatest fear: That her family would be caught up in a divorce (either hers or Mary-Sue's)

thing she loves most in the world: Her adopted Daughter.

one word to describe her: Force of Nature

something else: She is fascinated with the entertainment industry because she is fascinated about people.

 Coral Oldie "As the picture of maternal perfection, Coral has raised a successful, beautiful daughter; but at what price?"
Age : 56
Employment: Retired
Stats: Shy, Average everything else.
Aspiration: Family
Star Sign: Virgo
Hobby: Film (Travel films)
Gender Preference: Very straight.
Turn-ons/offs - Hats and undies, hates red hair

Passionate about: Film, Travel
Likes: Culture, Food
Dislikes: Crime, Paranormal, Sports, Toys, Work
Hates: SciFi

Relationships:
Herb : 72/70
Mary-Sue : 25/15
Angela: 25/15
Lilith: 25/15
Daniel: 25/15

Coral had a happy childhood, her father was her main carer. She met Herb as a child  and were best friends. As teens it became more. When they became adults, they married. Unfortunately her father, Bruno died on the wedding day. They tried for children, but eventually adopted Mary-Sue as a toddler. Both parents were hands-on. Coral taught Mary-Sue to walk. They did their best as parents, and Mary-Sue grew up well. They attended her wedding, and had met both grandchildren. She has no memory of her mother dying. Although she is a family sim, she has only an average relationship with them all. Given that she is not interested in politics, which is Mary-Sue's passion, and given that she is shy, the distance may be due to Mary-Sue's career.

All Coral's fears are about being rejected for affection. So although Herb has never strayed, she clearly believes it to be a possibility.

Her Lifetime want is to Marry off 6 children - clearly something she'll never achieve.

Skills:
Cleaning 2
Cooking  1
Charisma  1

Analysis: 

Although  Coral wanted to be the picture-perfect mother and wife, she was never more than average in household tasks. In her heart she wanted to travel, to experience other cultures and people. If truth be told, she'd drop her home in a heartbeat and travel with Herb to experience the world. Her heart is set on Sim-India, because of Bollywood but anything Asian or on the sub-continent would please her. She dislikes paranormal, so she is suspicious of non-human inhabitants.

She is prejudiced against Aliens - who knows what evil things that they could be up to (hates scifi), not like decent people.

She's not over-fond of Mary Sue's career, but that is nothing to how she feels about Daniel's.

She has very little  in common with Daniel, and he reminds her too much of what Herb could get up to to trust him much. She's done her best to keep that to herself, and welcome him into the family, and as long as they talk about travel, they're ok. Anything else and it can become one of 'those' arguments - where the claws are sheathed, and the talk is polite but the unpleasantness smolders underneath every word. Coral thinks that Daniel is a trophy-husband.

Coral doesn't really understand what happened between her and Mary-Sue.  They were close, she thought all during Mary-Sue's childhood.  But then she got a bee in her bonnet about being rich and powerful as a politician, and Coral and Herb just weren't up to scratch. Mary-Sue does come home occasionally, for tea and cake and to talk about her career. Coral would rather hear about her grand-daughters.

All the things that Coral treasures as a family aspiration seem like they're going to disappear if she doesn't work hard at it. Coral is an anxious person.